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Thoughts on Hohokam settlement behavioressay 1987 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Dean also comments on the papers from the symposium on the Hohokam village given at the 1985 American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings (eHRAF documents nos. 18-26) and provides a summary of the papers and their themes....Thoughts on Hohokam chronologyessay 1991 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Ever since the archaeological remains found in the Sonoran Desert have been assigned the name Hohokam, a number of chronologies have been suggested by various archaeologists to explain the origin of this tradition in the Southwest. Following a brief ...Demography, environment, and subsistence stressessay 1996 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Dean reviews 'potential instances of resource stress caused by environmental, demographic, and behavioral variability during the last 2000 years ...[This] provides a basis for assessing the relevance of Southwestern prehistory to understanding change...A model of Anaszai behavioral adaptationessay 1988 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document, which is primarily theoretical in nature, presents a provisional integrative formulation that applies relevant aspects of universal culture process models to the specific problem of Anasazi culture change and adaptation to the environm...Dendrochronology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction on the Colorado Plateausessay 1988 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Dean uses dendrochronology along with palynology and alluvial chronostratigraphic environmental reconstructions to help reconstruct the paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateau. 'Briefly the model identifies a fluvial system with a natural tendency t...Kayenta Anasazi settlement transformations in northeastern Arizona, A.D. 1150 to 1350essay 1996 • Dean, Jeffrey S.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Dean summarizes the Kayenta Anasazi subtradition, examining it from Archaic times through its dispersal out of the San Juan drainage to the Hopi Mesas. He compares it to the Chaco subtradition and speculates as to why Chaco had so little influence in...Prehistoric cooperation and competition in the western Anasazi areaessay 1989 • Gumerman, George J. & Dean, Jeffrey S.
Basketmaker • North America > Southwest and Basin
Gumerman and Dean propose a different way to view the 'character of Anasazi society.' They see the Western Anasazi archaeological record as showing 'regional interactive behavior [that is] far less complex than that implied by the concept of formal p...Complex adaptive systems and Southwestern prehistoryessay 1994 • Wills, W. H. (Wirt Henry) et al.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Wills et al. examine the theories that pertain to agricultural strategies, land use, resource depletion, population density, aggregation, and mobility. The archaeological data is then consulted to see if the theories explain the data....Anasazi adaptive strategiesessay 1988 • Plog, Fred et al.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
'This chapter summarizes the various environmental and cultural themes developed in the preceding chapters. The behavioral and environmental models are reviewed, and various behaviors are predicted for broad classes of environmental and demographic c...